International Business Machines Corporation

Peter Brian Masters

Daniel Edward Would

Scott John Clee

Martin James Rowe

Andrew James Osborne

A method and system for identifying remote objects on a client system is provided. A client system () has a connection means () to access a component () on a remote system (). The client system () has a graphical user interface () including a user interface object () representing the component () at the remote system (). Means () are provided for applying a theme to the object () to distinguish it as representing a remote component (). The graphical user interface () also includes user interface objects () for components local to the client system (), and the means for applying a theme () applies distinguishing themes to the local objects () and the remote objects ().

Identifying remote objects on a client system

A method and system are described for re-arranging a display in a viewable area. The method comprises dividing the viewable area into units; determining the contents of units of the viewable area; prioritizing the availability of the units by content; and allocating one or more display items in the prioritized available units. A plurality of display items is provided and the display items are allocated according to a determined order which may depend on one or more of a user preference, the contents of the viewable area, the activity of the user, and environmental parameters.

Method and system for re-arranging a display

An image display apparatus with a display device for displaying images and a viewing device for viewing an image in the left eye and a different image in the right eye. Two smaller images, a left image and a right image, are created from the same two-dimensional image. The left image includes, as it's left most part, the left most part of the two-dimensional image, the right image includes, as it's right most, the right most part of the image two-dimensional image, and both the left and right images include a common central part of the full image. When the left and right images are displayed such that the left eye sees one image and the right eye sees the other image, the viewer sees the two-dimensional image as a virtual image that can be wider than the viewable width of the display device. The width of the virtual image can be varied to accommodate the viewer.

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Peter Brian Masters